Knives Out

Rated PG-13

2 hours 10 minutes

Starring: Daniel Craig, Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, Chris Evans, Michal Shannon and Ana de Armas

Now that you know who is in it – you might be disappointed by the movie itself.  It is billed as an Agatha Christie type movie, so how can it go wrong with a description like that?  Well for me, I found it very disappointing. I thought the movie was long, drawn out, boring, and anti-climactic. 

The setting is a Victorian style house where the wealthy and famous father and grandfather, Harlan Thrombey (played by Christopher Plummer) was found dead.   

Who did it? Was it one of his three children? His grandchildren? His daughter-in-law or maybe the caretaker?  Who was going to inherit all his money, his estate and his book publishing corporation?  Enter Daniel Craig as the southern talking detective named Benoit Blanc.  At this point, I was done.  His character was “so” annoying it was a distraction for me, from the story.  Aside from that, the story became flat and boring.  It just weaved in and out of different characters and why “they” might be the one.  I felt like it didn’t really throw in too many different options of suspense and I felt it wasn’t hard to figure out who did it.

I guess I wished there had been more “suspense” and more “on the edge of your seat” storyline.  They were trying for Agatha Christie and it was more like Columbo.

Library Link: Knives Out (DVD)